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What explains popular support for political violence in the contemporary United States, particularly the anti-institutional mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol in January 2021?
Miles T. Armaly +2 more
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Social Media and Political Agenda Setting
What is the role of social media in political agenda setting? Digital platforms have reduced the gatekeeping power of traditional media and, potentially, they have increased the capacity of various kinds of actors to shape the agenda.
F. Gilardi +3 more
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Sentiment is Not Stance: Target-Aware Opinion Classification for Political Text Analysis
Sentiment analysis techniques have a long history in natural language processing and have become a standard tool in the analysis of political texts, promising a conceptually straightforward automated method of extracting meaning from textual data by ...
Samuel E. Bestvater, B. Monroe
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Previous research on emotional language relied heavily on off-the-shelf sentiment dictionaries that focus on negative and positive tone. These dictionaries are often tailored to nonpolitical domains and use bag-of-words approaches which come with a ...
Tobias Widmann, Maximilian Wich
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The rapid rise of digital media use for political participation has coincided with an increase in concerns about citizens’ sense of their capacity to impact political processes.
Jennifer Oser +3 more
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Most Americans think that the country is politically divided and polarization will only get worse, not better. Such perceptions of polarization are widespread, but we do not know enough about their effects, especially those unrelated to political ...
A. Lee
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The effect of COVID‐19 lockdowns on political support: Some good news for democracy?
Major crises can act as critical junctures or reinforce the political status quo, depending on how citizens view the performance of central institutions.
Damien Bol +3 more
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The rise of “fake news” is a major concern in contemporary Western democracies. Yet, research on the psychological motivations behind the spread of political fake news on social media is surprisingly limited. Are citizens who share fake news ignorant and
Mathias Osmundsen +4 more
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Political trust during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Rally around the flag or lockdown effects?
How can we explain the rise in diffuse political support during the Covid‐19 pandemic? Recent research has argued that the lockdown measures generated political support.
Dominik Schraff
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Measuring Populism in Political Parties: Appraisal of a New Approach
Populism has become a pervasive concept in political science research. However, a central and basic question remains unanswered: which European parties are more populist than others?
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